- REFERENCE9 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…
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- FEATURE RELEASE9 min read
Introducing dolt_column_diff
Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. One of the features that leverages the powerful versioned history Dolt tracks is our Database Hist...
Read More - TECHNICAL17 min read
Adding a GPT assistant to the Dolt CLI
ChatGPT is the talk of the town with the release of the immensely powerful GPT 4 model. Unless you've been living under a rock with no WiFi, you've certainly heard about it by now, and probably played with it yourself. Many people are excited, some...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASEHOSTED13 min read
Versioned MySQL Replicas on Hosted Dolt
Today we're showing how to use Hosted Dolt to run a versioned MySQL replica . Adding Dolt to your existing MySQL database as a replica is a great way to easily try out Dolt with your own data. As we'll see in the demo, the changes from MySQL f...
Read More - WEBFEATURE RELEASE2 min read
Introducing the Commit Graph on DoltHub: Visualizing Commit History
For those new to Dolt and DoltHub , Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. We're excited to announce the release of a new DoltHub feature: the commi...
Read More - USE CASEREFERENCE11 min read
Creating a Webapp with Hosted Dolt and AWS Amplify
In 2018 when we began building Dolt , we wanted to bring version control functionality to your datasets. We thought that the ability to branch and merge changes to data would allow for greater collaboration, resulting in higher quality data. Over...
Read More - GOLANG9 min read
SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table
Today's blog is announcing SwissMap , a new Golang hash table based on SwissTable that is faster and uses less memory than Golang's built-in map. We'll cover the motivation, design and implementation of this new package and give you some reaso...
Read More - TECHNICAL8 min read
Debugging Dolt's SQL Analyzer
I'm new to Dolt, both as a user and as an employee. Since I'm new here, I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Neil 👋. You can look at my history on LinkedIn, but what matters is that I'd describe myself as developer obsessed. I've spent ...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASE6 min read
Introducing DOLT_PATCH()
Dolt is a version controlled relational database that is a combination of the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. Today, we announce another new feature, the DOLT_PATCH() table function . This featu...
Read More - SQL14 min read
Debugging Slow SQL Queries
Dolt is the only version controlled relational database. Like if MySQL and Git had a baby, this baby also inherited the trauma of both parents. Today we will be talking about the SQL half. Our users send us increasingly complicated queries in ne...
Read More - BOUNTY5 min read
Price transparency is broken
Last year I wrote about how much new health insurance data spilled onto the web ( petabytes ). It turned out that for practical purposes most of the rates could probably be discarded , with the usable fraction probably being less than 10%. Bu...
Read More - TECHNICAL4 min read
DoltHub goes to PyData NYC
Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. One of our more popular use cases is assembling large datasets with an army of volunteers, like with our medical pricing bounties . The same people who care about these larg...
Read More - HOSTED7 min read
Comparing DoltHub and the Hosted SQL Workbench
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git-like features. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. Hosted DoltDB is AWS RDS for Dolt. Both DoltHub and Hosted come with a UI to help visualize data and track changes, while also providing seamless ...
Read More - REFERENCE23 min read
Getting Started: Versioned MySQL Replica
We have new mode to run Dolt in! The Versioned MySQL Replica. In this mode, you set up Dolt to replicate a primary MySQL. Set up can take as as little as three commands. After set up, Dolt replicates every write to your primary to Dolt and cr...
Read More - GOLANG8 min read
Real World Golang Concurrency Examples
Here at DoltHub, we're big fans of Golang. We built DoltDB , the first fully versioned SQL relational database, entirely on a Golang stack, and we use Go for all the services that power DoltHub , too. This post is a continuation of our series o...
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Caching Gatsby builds with Docker in GitHub Actions
At DoltHub , we write a lot of blogs. Each week our team publishes three to four blogs on various topics. Some recent blogs include our ongoing effort to publish Hospital Price Data in a single, coherent database , the release of Dolt v0.75.0...
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Journaling Chunk Store
Today's blog is announcing the 0.75.0 release of Dolt. With it comes the general release of Dolt's Chunk Journal, a new ACID-compliant persistence layer that is both faster and more reliable than our existing store. Over the last few years, Dolt...
Read More - BOUNTY3 min read
Hospital data for all: Part I
I announced a few months ago that we were planning to make hospital prices accessible in a single, public, freely-accessible database, giving the public access to secret negotiations insurers have with hospitals. We’ll capture these rates in two...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASESQL9 min read
Dolt Supports Spatial Indexes
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database; think Git and MySQL had a baby. Just over a year ago, we began our spatial journey with the addition of Spatial Types . We closed that gap about three months ago when we announced the support of Mult...
Read More - REFERENCE7 min read
So you want Change Data Capture?
Here at DoltHub we just launched versioned MySQL replication . Dolt is a version controlled database and you can now replicate to Dolt from your production MySQL. This new Dolt deployment mode has it competing in a new product categor...
Read More - HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE2 min read
Hosted DoltDB on Google Cloud Platform
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB , a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful databa...
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